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Strategic Studies

Oligarchical spokesmen are demanding an international tribunal to try leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the genocidalists who they helped put into power, to cover up their own crimes, and to destabilize Cambodia once again.

Economics

Just as Lyndon LaRouche forecast during the early days of 1999, during the past year the hopelessly bankrupt world financial system lurched into a “boundary condition” state, and only foolish people blinded by their own greed are still denying the collapse is imminent.

Documentation: Commentaries in the world press on the coming financial crash.

The Glass-Steagall Act, passed under the direction of President Franklin Roosevelt explicitly to limit the power of the international bankers over the U.S. economy, was a decidedly political act. Its repeal is a serious mistake.

The irony of a dangerously out of control group of parasites proclaiming that they are being “over-regulated,” should not be lost on anyone watching the bankers running roughshod over the very people they claim they want to serve.

Feature

The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the London Financial Times energy division co-sponsored a conference in Washington on “The Geopolitics of Energy into the Twenty-First Century.” It was warmed-over British raw materials geopolitics, borrowed from Britain’s nineteenth-century “Great Game” which is leading the world toward war.

International

A close look at the Russia-China Joint Declaration issued on Dec. 10 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and China’s President Jiang Zemin, shows that it is not merely a show of sabre-rattling, but rather it is a result of a profound shift under way in relations among the three main Eurasian powers: Russia, China, and India.

National

The Dec. 10 arrest of American nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee was an act of politically and racially-motivated scapegoating that has sparked anger from Asian-American constituency groups, and concern over this new McCarthyism.